Senior Backend Engineer – TikTok-Style Video Infrastructure (Rust)

Travoom•Austin, TX

5h•Onsite

About The Position

OleOle is building a global football super app combining social networking, messaging, live scores, short-form video, gambling, commerce, payments, translation, and mini programs into a single platform focused entirely on football fans worldwide. We are looking for a senior Rust engineer to help architect and build the short-form video infrastructure powering the platform. This role is focused specifically on TikTok-style video feeds, video ingestion pipelines, transcoding systems, media delivery infrastructure, playback optimization, recommendation and engagement systems, upload systems, scalable video APIs, CDN and streaming optimization, and real-time media infrastructure. This is not a generic backend role. The platform combines elements of TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, live football content, social engagement, and real-time translated communication inside a football-focused ecosystem.

Requirements

Strong Rust backend engineering experience
Experience designing scalable distributed systems
Experience building high-scale APIs
Experience with media or video infrastructure
Experience working with real-time systems
Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
Experience building scalable content delivery systems
Experience optimizing backend performance for high-volume traffic
Strong understanding of scalable media pipelines

Nice To Haves

Video ingestion pipelines
Video transcoding systems
Streaming infrastructure
CDN optimization
Short-form video feed systems
Recommendation or engagement systems
Real-time media delivery
Upload and processing pipelines
Distributed event systems
Large-scale consumer platforms
High-concurrency backend systems
FFmpeg or media processing pipelines
WebRTC or streaming technologies
Scalable caching systems
Distributed databases
Pub/sub infrastructure
Cloud-native infrastructure
Globally distributed systems
Recommendation systems or engagement ranking
AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
Working in startup environments
Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products
Strong product thinking
Ability to work independently in an early-stage startup environment
Comfortable helping shape architecture from the ground up
Comfortable operating with evolving product requirements
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Interest in ambitious long-term platform design
Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization.
Ability to adapt. An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.
Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus